Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program () Customer Video Review Length:: 8:51 MinsI do own Photoshop CS6 and Painter 12 but this is the soatfwre I prefer to sketch in. Why? Because for me it provides the closest sensation to sketching with traditional pencil and paper.The pencil tool creates lines that are almost identical to the lines you would get with a regular pencil. If you have a pressure sensitive laptop or monitor (Wacom Cintiq) then the experience is very similar to using a pencil on paper. Download the free trial version and try it out first to see what I mean.I also really like the simplicity of the interface. The workspace is not filled up with menu bars and palettes. This is really important if you are working on a small monitor or a pressure sensitive laptop with a small screen. Having written that, each new version of Sketchbook Pro does add more and more available palettes and windows, but it is still very easy to keep most of the palettes closed and still have access to the various tools.Here are some of the great NEW features in Sketchbook Pro 6. Check out the video to see these in action.1. Additional Brush Libraries! My current favorite is the new Synthetic Round Brush 2. These brushes are similar to the natural brush feel of many of the brushes in Painter 12.2. Copic Color Palettes. Makes selecting colors and incorporating slight variations so easy!3. Brush size can now be controlled with the right and left square bracket keys (the same keyboard shortcut as Photoshop).4. Layer Blending Modes (normal, multiply, screen, and add)5. New Color Puck (similar to Painter)My usual workflow is to start out a sketch in Sketchbook Pro and then I bring it into Photoshop or Painter to finish. However, with the new features in Sketchbook Pro 6 I believe I will be doing more work in this program. It’s also just more fun to use!Bottom line: When it comes to pure sketching this soatfwre is my first choice. Combined with a pressure sensitive laptop or monitor it doesn’t get any more natural feeling than this.